Digital and Connected: Labbook 2.0

摘要

The next generation of electronic lab notebooks is taking over the bench: In addition to a mobile usability, the collaboration between researchers is becoming more and more important. After the second wave of the digital revolution has reached everyday life with Web 2.0 innovations, it is now gradually taking over science. Researchers benefit especially from new ways of scientific work and collaboration, which are offered by new platforms and fueled by cloud solutions and new collaborative tools. Nonetheless, it remains remarkable that in spite of using the most modern equipment, most laboratories still rely on paper lab notebooks for planning and documenting scientific research: More than 70 % of all industrial laboratories and up to 96 % of all public research institutes still use paper-based documentation systems.